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ICAR identifies wheat varieties

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NEW DELHI: The Indian Council for Agriculture Research on Thursday declared seven wheat varieties that have been identified for diversification at the 46th All India Wheat and Barley Research Workers’ Meet held at the College of Agriculture in Pune recently.

The HI 8663, a newly durum wheat variety developed by the Indian Agriculture Research Institute’s Indore station, has been recommended for release in Karnataka and Maharashtra for its high protein content and stability. It can serve as ‘naturally bio-fortified food and can be used for nutritive chapatti and is also good for quality pasta preparations.’

Developed by Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, the PBW 550 variety combines high grain yield with high degree of resistance to leaf rust and stripe rust. The yield under irrigated and timely sown conditions is 48 quintal per hectare. The farmers of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will get an improved wheat variety, HI 1544 that yields 6.3 per cent higher than others in the region. It will save irrigation water and its early maturity and medium bold lustrous grains will provide better alternative to identified varieties in improving the productivity and profitability of farmers in these States. Another wheat variety namely, HD 2932, is developed by Indian Agricultural Research Institute at New Delhi. It can be grown under late sown irrigated conditions in central zone. The variety has wide adaptability and has been recommended for release in MP, Chhatisgarh, Gujarat, Kota and Udaipur in Rajasthan and Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh.

WH 1021 is a high yield variety with a high degree of disease resistance and better quality characters that are suitable for late sown, high fertility and irrigated conditions of the north-western plain zone. It has been developed by the Chaudhary Charan Singh University at Hissar.

The nutritionally rich and highly rust resistant, VL 892, has been developed by the Vivekanand Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan at Almora. It is recommended for late sown restricted irrigation conditions in the northern hills zone.

The Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya at Palampur has also developed a wheat variety — HPW 251— with high yield potential under rainfed and early sown conditions in the northern hills zone.

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